About this Event
At this unique Oxford event, Rebecca Yarros will be discussing herEmpyrean series ahead publication of the third book 'Onyx Storm' in January 2025.
For this very special evening, ticket price also includes pre-order of an exclusive signed copy of 'Onyx Storm' to be sent out on publication day: 21 January 2025. (Please note, pre-orders of signed copies are limited to one per ticket and are only available to customers with a UK shipping address).
Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros is an author best known for the Empyrean fantasy book series (due to be adapted into a television series with Amazon). The first book in the series, Fourth Wing, was published to huge acclaim in May 2023 and quickly went on to become a #1Sunday Times, New York Times and global bestseller.
The sequel, Iron Flame, became the fastest selling pre-order title in a single day on the Waterstones website with their special edition selling out in just a few hours ahead of its November 2023 release.
Fourth Wing
Violet Sorrengail expected to live a quiet life surrounded by books, until she was forced onto the world's deadliest training ground. Now she must fight to join the army's elite: dragon riders. But dragons don't choose fragile riders, they incinerate them, and when your body breaks as easily as Violet's does – death is only a heartbeat away.
Many cadets would K*ll Violet to better their own chances of success; the rest would K*ll her just because of her last name . . . including the ruthless Xaden Riorson, her family's greatest enemy. With the odds stacked against her, Violet must use every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise, because once you enter Basgiath War College, there are only two ways out:
GRADUATE OR DIE
Iron Flame
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to W**d out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.
Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's gruelling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is – unless she betrays the man she loves.
Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits, and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.
But a determination to survive won't be enough this year.
Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College – and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Onyx Storm UK publication date: 21 January 2025
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
GBP 30.00
